Relativity Quotes

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore. (Albert Einstein)
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. View quote
Piet Mondrian
General relativity is certainly a very beautiful theory, but how does one judge the elegance of physical theories generally? View quote
Roger Penrose
Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult. View quote
Mark Haddon
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two. View quote
Roy H. Williams
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity. View quote
Ramakrishna
No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years. View quote
G. H. Hardy
To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known. View quote
Emil Cioran
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed. View quote
David Mermin
The problem with general relativity is that the principles are pretty simple and the computations are always ugly. (Leonard Susskind)
I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not. View quote
Rich Mullins
White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity. View quote
Mark Tobey
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined. View quote
David Bohm
It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity. View quote
Michael Moorcock
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. View quote
Brian Greene
The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. View quote
Nikola Tesla
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. View quote
Albert Einstein
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English! (Albert Einstein)
On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity. View quote
Albert Einstein
What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field. View quote
Albert Einstein
The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed the breakdown of the mechanistic theory even within physics, the science where it was the most successful... Relativity took over in field physics, and the science of quantum theory in microphysics... In view of parallel developments in physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, and economics, many branches of the contemporary sciences became... ‘sciences of organized complexity' - that is, systems sciences. View quote
Ervin László
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. View quote
Paul Davies